Intro by Rupert Wolfe Murray.
One of the purposes of this blog is to encourage people to travel and to write.
I’d like to encourage people to write for this blog. I’m always looking for personal stories about travelling, or …
Some rather ridiculous impressions from my recent bike/book tour in Scotland…in diary format. The photo above is of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, taken in 1987 by my friend Uli Zimmerman.
20 October, Edinburgh
Today I will fly to …
I have just cycled to the Scottish city of Aberdeen. It’s sunny and I didn’t know it was such an attractive city.
Tomorrow at 2pm I will give a talk about my new memoir, 9 Months in Tibet, at …
Imagine you’re a microscopic insect who has crawled through the hole in the middle of an old vinyl record. You look around, get your bearings but all you can see is a vast open space that stretches out to the …
Camping is a paradox. On the one hand it’s really simple — you sleep outside — but on the other hand it’s really complicated: before you set off you must check you have a suitable tent (is it waterproof? do …
In my experience libraries are fusty places with fierce ladies telling you to be quiet, or big silent tombs where grim students bury their heads in books for hours on end. Many public libraries in Britain have been closed and …
